1975, graduate, International Economic Relations, Moscow Academy of Finance. Formerly: with State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations; 1979, with Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 1993, Deputy General Manager, Department of Foreign Credits and External Debt, Ministry of Finance, Russia; 1997, First Deputy Chairman, Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR, Vnesheconombank; 2002, Deputy Chairman, Bank for Foreign Trade Vneshtorgbank; 2004-07, Chairman, Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of the USSR. Since 2007, Chairman, Vnesheconombank.